CPAC

From Conservapedia

CPAC, Conservative Political Action Conference, has traditionally been the largest annual gathering of conservatives, but consisting of overwhelmingly male college students. CPAC traditionally met in Washington, D.C., in February or March, with exceeding 10,000 in attendance. CPAC outgrew the largest hotels in D.C., and in 2014 and 2015 met in the massive Marriott Gaylord hotel in National Harbor, Maryland.

Students for Life is largest annual conservative conference that has balance between men and women in attendance. It sells out with its annual conference of 2000 in D.C., around the time of the March for Life. It also succeeds without the libertarian and big money dominance that increasingly plagues CPAC. But CPAC does remain a good counterweight to the neocons who dominate the Fox News Channel.

In 2010, the CPAC audience demonstrates its lack of social conservatism by ranking issues in the following importance:

There was, however, virtually unanimous opposition among attendees to the policies of the Obama Administration.

Ron Paul won the straw poll among attendees for president in 2012, but Mitt Romney came in a close second. Romney won the Republican nomination for president, and then lost the general election.

Ronald Reagan Award

Each year the special Ronald Reagan Award is given to a rising star in the conservative movement, and there have been some tremendous recipients in the 1990s and 2000s. In 2010, this award went to the Tea Parties.